By the end of the 19th Century, Pennsylvania like the other states on the Eastern seaboard, was almost completely denuded of trees. Look at photos from the Civil War period. Until fossil fuels were fully exploited, wood was used for almost everything, from all heat and cooking, to building ships, fueling trains, and metal making. With the mature trees gone, the underbrush burned constantly and the white tailed deer, the Pennsylvania state animal, was almost completely wiped out.

In 2023 PA has a 59% forest cover, and there are millions of deer, and even the bear and beaver have returned. How did that happen? The Pennsylvania State College of Forestry opened in 1903, and is now Penn State Mont Alto. The United States Forest Service was started in 1905 during the Teddy Roosevelt adminstration. The scientific management of forests brought back the trees, not the Skywoman.

The environment we live in now is almost totally different than the one indigenous people lived in. In Pennsylvania, what looks like an old growth hardwood forest was in reality intentionally planted by people many years ago on a former corn field with a coal mine underneath it. All of the brick, concrete, asphalt, wires, and plumbing are not going away. The old magic doesn't work anymore.